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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey A. Larsen is a senior policy analyst in the Strategies Group of Science Applications Corporation and president of Larsen Consulting Group, both in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has served as senior editor of the U.S. Air Force's internal study of its air campaign in the war against terrorism. He is the author of Arms Control: Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment. He is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and associate professor of political science at the Air Force Academy. James M. Smith is the director of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. He is also a professor on the Academy's faculty and a representative to the USAF Chief of Staff's special study on Developing Aerospace Leaders. He is the author of Milestones in Air Force Arms Control History. He is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and associate dean for Academic Research at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Klappentext Covers the significant persons, places, agencies, organizations, conferences, conventions, treaties, and acts that have influenced arms control and disarmament from the beginnings of recorded western history to present times. The introductory essay reviews where arms control has come from and where it is heading during this period of global transition, as well as how the definitions of the terms and the conduct of the field have developed, and why arms control and disarmament remain both very much alive and relevant, today and into the future. A list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, and a comprehensive bibliography complement the dictionary entries of this unique reference. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Editor's Foreword Part 2 Preface Part 3 Acronyms and Abbreviations Part 4 Chronology Part 5 Introduction Part 6 THE DICTIONARY Part 7 Bibliography Part 8 Timeline Part 9 About the Authors
